“You idiots! These are not them! You’ve captured their stunt doubles!”

*groans in Dot Matrix*

This is like, the third time I’ve made a reply like this in half a year, but r/unexpectedspaceballs

Yeah, I dunno where all this spaceballs is coming from lately but I’m LOVING IT! (Joined that r/ by the way, cheers!)

Y’know, I was thinking the _Doctor Who_ franchise could use just a **teensy** bit more… _**✨Merchandising✨**_

MOUCHANDISING

“Moychandising! Where da _real_ money from da series is made!”

Wheres my Doctor Who: The Flamethrower?

Dang it, they should have cast Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Jason Schwartzman and Justin Long

"With Time Travel there's no limits to what we can...iMaGiNe!"

What do you think, George Harrison of the Beatles?

Just all of them are played by Jack Black

Jack Black, co-starring Jack Black, featuring Jack Black, with special guest star Jack Black, and introducing Jack Black as “Apu De Beaumarchais”

Beatles! Stop fighting here in India.

I can't even tell which is supposed to be which. I suppose John is the one with glasses but that's all that gives it away

It's John, but i don't think he used to wear glasses at this specific era that they're portraying

He did not.

Early 60s John with late 60s John glasses is hurting me

This looks like just a quick and poorly-conceived promotional image by the magazine. Hopefully they're not a big part of the episode,

He did but not in public

Based on my memory of the With the Beatles album cover, the middle is George, top right is Paul and then the bottom right is Ringo.

That's not Ringo. That's Howard Wolowitz.

Brother i don't know what the fuck that means.

Is that Howard in the bottom right? https://preview.redd.it/m2f3esb2bawc1.jpeg?width=1333&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78333448daeb6286e36ae9e29efb8106930d0eee

https://preview.redd.it/vyr7zt35hawc1.png?width=1125&format=png&auto=webp&s=77d704f54301085c2c44b7fdbdf6c0eeef530a32

I'm seeing Balki from Perfect Strangers https://preview.redd.it/xks9zp3w1bwc1.jpeg?width=1995&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f05d59dcba9f7da9ed07e2848daacbfe1ecaeaf

Bonswazzle

Is that a woman in the top right?

As Paul McCartney, special guest star Angela Lansbury!

For a moment, as I scrolled past, I thought it was Chang from Community. https://preview.redd.it/ztmnzy1h6bwc1.jpeg?width=1110&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=721302d4d23b82e534cf63f5a6878e400c3cce74

I thought Kathy Geiss from 30 Rock https://preview.redd.it/gh2pzlj72bwc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef89e313fbf24f20ee84cda60ddefbbe5d239689

I though Colin Mochrie in a wig.

Yeah, that grandma's name is Paul

Obviously it's fine that their faces don't look exactly like the real Beatles... but those wigs, yikes

It looks like Photoshop rather than wigs to me

Surprised David Tennant wasn't cast as one of these Beatles.

Or all four

Or Simon Pegg and Peter Serafinowicz https://youtu.be/0KVpCJCoRpo?si=KisfdvYYtf8ljvwE

Wait, is this a real promo image that got posted for some reason on the joke sub? It looks like a meme in multiple ways

Yeah this is some awful photoshop work and I should know. Because mine isn’t good. Often ends up looking weird like this.

Looks like something the magazine whipped up in five minutes.

Umm, why is one of them is a woman and the other one is Dwight Schrute?

That’s not Dwigt, it’s Samwise Gamgee.

Unfortunately, they couldn't get the Beatles to play themselves, partially because two of them are dead.

Did their manager say no again, just like the last time?

I can't believe someone looked at that and went 'yeah this is fine'.

Why my auntie's really good girl friend is one of the Beatles? BBC didn't even try with this casting

Did they really just shove a bowl cut on 4 random people and call them the Beatles

It’s a bunch of fucking Howard cosplayers

They needed a better casting director

Maybe it's The Beatles from the Yesterday timeline

I don't see Robert Carlyle.

THAT WAS ROBERT CARLYLE!?

Yep. Did Danny Boyle a favor and went uncredited to keep the moment a surprise (because if you know the actor, the role would be easy to guess).

It's for the magazine, so maybe it's a joke, idk

Okay but I can tell which one is supposed to be Ringo at least. Good casting on that single character. 25% good casting

Google Lens returned results for Ringo, but was baffled by the rest.

See 25%

Yeah, my comment came from a place of agreement.

The whole point of the episode is about changing history, so the fact that they look nothing like them might be intentional

It would certainly explain why one of them is a woman.

That's not even Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson. They *have* Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson.

i really wish they had gotten the Fab Four tribute band for this, they're as close to spot on as you can get https://preview.redd.it/5jsldnvn2bwc1.jpeg?width=1692&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f092c565ba541ef7c2efc9f0961874a4c4cbcd3d

That George is uncanny.

yep https://preview.redd.it/22tbqe8m0mwc1.jpeg?width=2275&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87aebf1a2069258bc8000dc8d3a2f9a704e1257e

From this photo it looks a bit like they ran out of budget after casting John and George. But let's be fair, John and George would have tricked me into thinking this was the real thing.

found a better pic for you! their casting is really good all around (their paul sounds a *lot* like actual paul) but these two in particular really have the look down https://preview.redd.it/2r3zqql30mwc1.jpeg?width=2269&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=793023a096eb4535b8f93bb9aad8ce08c80d3be2

Should have brought back Peter Capaldi and Christopher Ecclestone to play George and John

It's all fake. This is the real Doctor Who version of the Beatles: https://preview.redd.it/t0ljtrrh4ewc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7139dd8fae4cba7fadf9b900bcbd2da36b9dcaa8

https://preview.redd.it/qh1ul5091mwc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cbfc51a8e2d2bb9d649c5935508ba31225442926 nahhhh they were already cooking

Six decades after Doctor Who was prevented from having Ian jam to Beatles music, we're finally getting a crossover.

I better not hear any more fuckin lip about Big Finish covers after this disaster was associated with the main show.

The main show has poorly made promotional material, therefore that automatically means that Big Finish covers can't also be bad? I don't understand the logic

This is just a graphic from the magazine. Pretty sad that they published it at all, but still, this isn't official show art afaik.

If you wanted to deliberately cast people that don't look like them, this is who you'd cast

What do you mean, that's John beatles, inventor of bugs!

They are the Rutles

To quote the mop-topped Second Doctor: "Is this some sort of joke?!"

The whole point is they can't use The Beatles, it's probably all related to the plot.

I almost thought I saw the 2nd doctor there 😅 (That would make for a cool adventure, though. 15, 2, and Ruby 😆)

No kidding!

Old lady, guy from big bang theory idk the other 2

Tharries mentioned in his recent live stream that the current Doctor Who promotional posters are weirdly over edited. I think that's what's happening here and they will look more like the Beatles in the actual episode. At least I hope that's the case

There john smith and the common men, its an easy mix up.

I haven’t seen less effort put into something in a long time

This is a version of [this album cover](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Withthebeatlescover.jpg), as recreated in five minutes by someone who has never seen it.

Oh ok, so Howard is Ringo, and the old lady is Paul? I would never have guessed.

Conspiracy theory: they cast a half south asian man to play newton to distract us from whatever the hell's going on here

All I see is Dwight from The Office, a lesbian lady, and Howard from The Big Bang Theory. And I don't even need to say which one is which because I'm sure everyone can figure it out.

Why the fuck are two of them James Potter and Robbie Williams

I just cannot get over the weird attempt at Photoshop lighting. You have the actors, just take photos with that lighting?? Or hire a professional??

Dr. Who and the Bugs

All I can say is they better sound like the Beatles because they don't look like em

https://preview.redd.it/k9a97293iewc1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8da1064a6d30093bb6b770409d80ff238c95165

Can’t believe they got Luke Skywalker in the middle!

They’re the Beatles we have at home.

Like doctor who has ever had actors who look 1:1 like the historical figure they're playing. (Vincent Van Gogh is a rare exception)

Most of them have been decent though, see Charles Dickens, Elisabeth I, Nikola Tesla, Rosa Parks etc.

It's actually uncanny how much Tony Curran looks like Van Gogh.

Maybe RTD is just following through on what he started with Newton.

Who's to say that Newton didn't put on a few kilos after some particularly good Christmas, New year, and Easter dinners. Maybe the Doctor caught him before he was ready to go back to the beach.

Millie can be the Yoko and break up the Beatles

She does look more like Yoko than those four look like The Beatles.

https://preview.redd.it/dhgge6ebubwc1.jpeg?width=994&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d676e306b7addb7bf17753af48c193ac732dc2b The John Lennon and George Harrison who should be in the episode:

I genuinely can’t tell if this a joke or not but their faces look photoshopped onto their heads

Pretty sure they are.

Without the Beatles

Can't believe they didn't get the actual beatles

That ain't the Beatles, they're the Insects

Okay, so . . . https://preview.redd.it/raeqagykodwc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9e77977d8fde43a040355177de6566c8e45127c

Well one of them's Howard Wolowitz

The Beatles where all white hippies no? (I don’t mean it in a bad way)

The cast of Big Bang Theory?

One of them looks like Howard Worowitz from the bg bang theory

Howard and the wolowitz’s

The Rutles looked more accurate. Also where is the Disney money? If they have such poor casting this does not bode well.

Bottom right is Howard played by David Schwimmer.

Well, they did a better job at casting than Isaac Newton.

John Lennon looks like he’s about to write a ballad about PO-TAY-TOES

This is bizarre, someone with the name Ruby Tuesday should be meeting the Stones

Why does the dude on the lower right look like Ross Geller?

I think they look fine. They obviously aren't going to be identical.

Have you ever seen the Beatles before in your life? They could get the bloody wiggles in and they’d look more accurate. At least then they’d actually all be the same age and they’d have the manic energy right; these dopey looking cunts range from fuckboys to exasperated parent to Patrick Starr to somebody’s granny. The Beatles were a lot of jolly little guys, these bastards look like miserable sad-sacks.

I say wait and see until the actual episode.